Missed This: Perch Was Acquired By Raydiant Back In Sept. 2022 January 12, 2024 by Super User Old news, but not to me – the San Francisco software and solutions firm Raydiant acquired Perch back in September 2022. I missed that, but had been wondering recently what had become of NYC-based Perch, which was early in the game packaging up interesting lift and learn merchandising solutions using sensors, overhead projection and displays. …
Big Electronic Shelf Label Vendor SES-imagotag Rebrands As VusionGroup Ahead Of NRF January 12, 2024 by Super User One of the better-known names in the electronic shelf labels market will have to do some work on building back awareness after announcing a re-brand, with SES-imagotag changing its handle to VusionGroup. The new brand rolls the ESL side of the French company’s business in with a broader solution called Vusion. From PR: SES-imagotag will …
Projection-Mapped Church Show Draws Almost 100K Paid Viewers Over Its Run In Bordeaux January 11, 2024 by Super User A lot of the recent attention around projection-mapped environments lately has been with commercial attractions – like Illuminarium and Montreal’s Oasis Immersion – but there’s also interesting work going on that delivers experiences but also has broader benefits. A projection-mapped show, mixed with live orchestral music, sold almost 100,000 tickets during a just-finished run at …
MSG Abandons Plans To Replicate The Vegas Sphere In London January 9, 2024 by Super User It appears any aspirations to replicate the Las Vegas Sphere in London, UK have been abandoned – with news that Madison Square Garden (MSG), the parent company of Sphere Entertainment, has withdrawn its planning application. The company has complained that the project had become a political football, and it was evidently not enjoying being kicked …
Cybersecurity Firm Deploys Some 150 Sony Pro Displays For Multiple Uses Across Global Offices January 5, 2024 by Super User Here’s an example of a company heavily adopting display technology across its workplaces, and standardizing on a manufacturer for everything from control room video walls to menu displays in the break areas. The cybersecurity company ReliaQuest has offices in Tampa, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Dublin, London and Pune, India, and has recently deployed roughly …
LCD Flat Panel Production Starting To Make Shift From China To India: DSCC Prediction January 3, 2024 by Super User The display-focused research and consulting firm DSCC has an interesting (albeit nerdy) set of predictions up about what might happen in the next 12 months with the LCD, OLED and LED display businesses. I won’t go through them all, as you can read yourself (I think you might have to register). But here are two …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Super User I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
Digital Signage-Driven Sook Pop-Up Stores Cease Operations January 2, 2024 by Super User Well this makes me sad … the UK start-up that was using digital signage technology as the core visual marketing feature of a set of short-term rental pop-up stores has ceased operations. The company, called Sook, had what I thought was the clever idea of establishing small, ready-to-use retail stores on UK high streets that …
New Saudi Gov’t Back Giga Project Involves E-Sports Arena With Massive 3,600 Sq. Meter Chandelier-Like LED Screen December 21, 2023 by Super User Given the extraordinary cost and the need in much of the world to clear planning hurdles and local objects about light pollution and energy usage, it’s widely thought the next variation on the Las Vegas Sphere might rise up in a money-is-no-object place like Dubai or Saudi Arabia. And now there is word of a …
OOH Gets Top Overall Performance From Media Pros: Research December 20, 2023 by Super User Here’s a little year-end nugget of positive messaging for the out of home and digital out of home sector – word that it gets the best performance ratings among media agency people. A 2023 survey by Media Village’s Myers Report – described as the media industry’s most influential B2B research report – says that among …
